PAPER #1

1.“O, for a draught of vintage ! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of
Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth !” The above description is
an example of
(1) Paronomasia (2) Synaesthesia
(3) Aphaeresis (4) Synecdoche

2. Mercutio: “Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.”

Romeo: “Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes with nimble soles; I have a soul of lead … So stakes
me to the ground I cannot move…”
In the above lines from Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare makes use of the following literary device:
a. Paronomasia b. Aphaeresis
c. Synecdoche d.assonance

3.The act of representation of a text in another script is known as

a. Transcription b. Transliteration
c. Translation d. Code-switching

4. Which of the following does not belong to Indo European family?

a. English b. German
c. Scandinavian d. Finnish

5.Why is “Universal grammar” so called?

(A) It is a set of basic grammatical principles universally followed and easily recognized by people.
(B) It is a set of basic grammatical principles assumed to be fundamental to all natural languages.
(C) It is a set of advanced grammatical principles assumed to be fundamental to all natural languages.
(D) It is a set of universally respected practices that have come, in time, to be known as “grammar”.

6.“Blended learning” is a mode of instruction/learning in which

(A) the learner’s mother tongue and the target language are blended
(B) learning is accessed through the mother tongue
(C) a variety of instructional modes are integrated
(D) learning of a language is mediated by humanistic

7.Who among the following translators is notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita
into English ?
(1) Charles Wilkins (2) Nathaniel Halhead
(3) William Jones (4) Barbara Stoler Miller

8. Which of the following is not true of free verse ?

(1) Characterised by short, irregular lines.
(2) No rhyme pattern.
(3) Written in iambic pentameter
(4) A dependence on the effective and more intense use of pauses

9.Which of the following is the first Indian novel in English?

a.Rajmohan’s Wife b. Anandmath
c. Kanthapura d. Chokher Bali

10.. Thy Hand, Great Anarch! Is a 1987 sequel to___________. Its title was inspired from the concluding
couplet of Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad.
a. Cat and Shakespeare b. Autumn Leaves
c. The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian d.The Dark Room

11.Sir Philip Sidney paid him the most extravagant tribute when he said, “ Of all philosophers, I have
esteemed him most worthy of reverence and with great reason, since of all philosophers he is the most
poetical.” Who is the philosopher being referred to?
a. Aristotle b. Plato
c. St. Augustine d. Horace.

12.Which of the following novelists does not find mention in F. R. Leavis’ The Great Tradition?
a..Joseph Conrad b. James Joyce
c. Henry James d. D.H. Lawrence
13. A.C. Bradley was a renowned Shakespearean critic about whom it is said ,”Shakespeare failed in his
Shakespeare paper because he had not read his Bradley.” But a scathing attack was made against him by
another critic in an essay ‘How many children had Lady Macbeth?’ Who was this other critic?
a. F.L. Lucas b. Edmund K. Chambers
c. L.C. Knight d. Edward Dowden

14. ”It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t
know what I was doing in New York.” It is the opening line of
a. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath b.Ullyses, James Joyce
c. Mrs.Dalloway, VirginiaWoolf d.Sons and Lovers, D.H.Lawrence

15. Select the right chronological sequence of the date of Bible translations.
(1) King James Version – Tyndale –Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian Standard Bible
(2) Revised Standard Version – King James Version – Tyndale – Holman Christian Standard Bible
(3) Tyndale – King James Version – Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian Standard Version
(4) Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian Standard Bible – King James Version – Tyndale

16. Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject
in French, English and German literature?
a. Beowulf b. Arthur
c.Cedmon d. Alfred

17. Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did NOT occur during the
Restoration period?
a)Charles II was restored to the throne
b)The French Revolution
c)The Great Fire of London
d)The Exclusion Bill Crisis

18. Which of the following African writers won the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
(A) Chinua Achebe (B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Ngugi wa Thiong’o (D) Bessie Head

19. Which of the plays in its Preface was described by Eugene O’Neill as ‘a play of old sorrow, written in
tears and blood’ ?
(A) Desire under the Elms (B) The Hairy Ape
(C) Long Day’s Journey into Night (D) Mourning Becomes Electra
20. Choose the correct chronology:
a. Burnt Norton, Easter Coker, Dry Salvages, Little Gidding
b.Dry Salvages, Easter Coker ,Burnt Norton, Little Gidding
c.Burnt Norton, Dry Salvage, Little Gidding, Easter Coker
d.Burnt Norton, Dry Salvages, Easter Coker, Little Gidding

21. ‘The Medium is the Message’ is a concept given by

(A) Ernest Hemingway (B) Sylvia Plath
(C) Seymour Hersh (D) Marshal McLuhan

22. The Beats was a Post-World War II phenomenon The Beat poets used different settings over the years
to practice their brand of hallucinogenic, visionary, antiestablishment art. Which of the following is not
associated with the Beat Movement?
a. Allen Ginsberg b Jack Kerouac
c. Sylvia Plath d.William S. Burroughs

23. Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”, a key work of the Beat Movement, was dedicated to .
(1) Lucien Carr (2) Carl Solomon
(3) Herbert Huncke (4) Jack Kerouac

24. “Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, its awful.” It is a quote from
a. Waiting for Godot b. Endgame
c. Kapp’s Last Tape d. Myth of Sisyphus

25. Which of the following is a dark comedy?

a. Travesties, Tom Stoppard b. Chairs, Eugene Ionesco
c. Joesph Heller, Catch22 d. Pygmalion, G.B. Shaw

26. Identify the right chronological sequence :

(1) The American Pastoral – Sister Carrie – The Great Gatsby – Beloved
(2) The Great Gatsby – Sister Carrie – Beloved – The American Pastoral
(3) Sister Carrie – The Great Gatsby – Beloved – The American Pastoral
(4) Sister Carrie – The Great Gatsby – The American Pastoral – Beloved

27.Identify the correct chronological sequence of the founding of the following 18th century
English periodicals :
(1) Tatler – Spectator – The Gentleman’s Magazine – Rambler
(2) Spectator – Tatler – The Gentleman’s Magazine – Rambler
(3) Rambler – Tatler – Spectator – The Gentleman’s Magazine
(4) Tatler – Spectator – Rambler – The Gentleman’s Magazine

28. Who wrote the Sun Also Rises about an American expatriate journalist who travels from Paris to
Pamplona, Spain, to observe the running of the bulls?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Tennessee Williams D) Jake Barnes
29. 4. What was the name of the slave whom Huck helps to escape in Mark Twain’s Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn?
A) Tom B) Isiah
C) Remus D) Jim
30. . In what state is Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof set?
A) Louisiana B) Georgia
C) Tennessee D) Mississippi
31. A sonnet is
a.14 Lines in blank verse
b. 14 lines in iambic pentameter and a particular rhyme scheme
c. 14 lines in free verse
d.12 lines in iambic pentameter
32. The Emblem is a poetic genre containing a symbolic picture with a text and a verse exposition
popular in the early 17th century. Who popularised this kind of poetry through the work
Emblems [1635] ?
(1) Robert Southwell (2) Francis Quarles
(3) John Davies (4) Joseph Sylvester
33. What was the name of the monster in Beowulf?
a. Cynewulf b. Grendel
c. Gilgamesh d.Gleeman
34.In Cynewulf’s Dream of the Rood what does Rood stand for?
a. Church b. Cross
b. Tree d.Sceptre
35. Who translated the Latin Ecclesiastical History of the Venerable Bede into English?
a. King Henry II b. King Arthur
c. King Alfred d. King Edward III
36. East Midland Dialect tended to gain ascendancy because
a. It was used by Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales
b. It was the speech of the capital
c. It was used in the two centres of learning, Oxford and Cambridge
d. Both b and c
37. During which time period did War of Hundred Years last?
a. 1337-1453 b.1337-1437
c.1066-1337 d.1066-1166
38. Chaucer was born in the reign of _________ lived through that of _________ and died the year
_______ ascended the throne.
a. Richard II, Edward III, Henry IV
b. Richard II, Henry IV, Edward III
c. Edward III, Richard II , Henry IV
d. None
39. Who of the following is not associated with Peasant uprising in 14th century?
a. Wat Tyler b.Martin Luther
c. Jack Straw d.John Ball
40. Who is known as the morning start of Reformation ?
a. William Tyndale b. John Wyclif
c. John Calvin d. Petrarch
41. Westminster Abbey came to be called the Poet’s corner because
a. Shakespeare was buried there
b. Chaucer was buried there
c. Wordsworth was born there
d. Shakespeare had his residence there where he produced all his great poetry
42. Choose the correctly matched pair:
a. Roman de la Rose French
b. The Boke of the Duchesse Italian
c. The House of Fame English
d. Legend of Good Women Italian
43. What is the name of the host of Tabard Inn where all pilgrims of Canterbury stay?
a. Palamon b. Harry Baily
c. Berry Paely d. John Lyly
44. Nunnes Priests tale is
a.farce b.Vilanelle
c. Beast Fable d. Parable
45. Chaucer dedicates his Troylus and Crysede to
a. William Langland b.John Gower
c. John Barbour d. John Wyclife

46. Rhyme Royale which Chaucer used is a _________lined stanza

a. 6 b.7
c.14 d. 12

47. Story of Thebes, designed as a new Canterbury tales is written by

a. Lydgate b. Occleve
c. Henryson d. James I
48. William Dubar’s Thistle and the Rose is composed to commemorate
a. The War of Roses
b. the marriage of James IV of Scotland
c.The end of the Hundred Years’s War
d. death of Chaucer
49. Choose the correct combination
a. Repressor of overmuch Blaming of Clergy- Thomas More
b. The Difference between an Absolute and Limited Monarchy – Reginald Peacock
c. The New Atlantis- Francis Bacon
d. Morte de Arthur- John Fortescue
50. Caxton set up his press in
a.1376 b.1476
c.1576 d.1676
51. Henry Howard and Thomas Wyatt together brought from Italy ‘amourist poetry’. Amourist, here
means
a. immoral b. atheist
c.love poetry d. nature poetry
52. Toxophilus is a work by
a. Roger Ascham b. Stephen Hawes
c.John Skelton d. Thomas Wyatt
53. The Ideology of Aesthetic (1990) is a work by
a. Raymond William b. Terry Eagleton
c. Herbert Marcuse d. Theodor Adorno
54. Which of the following is not associated with Aestheticism?
a. Walter Pater . b. Flaubert
c. Mallarme d. Ibsen
55. Which of the following is not an Asian – Canadian writer ?
(A) Shauna Singh Badlwin (B) Himani Banerjee
(C) Joy Kogawa (D) Meena Alexander

56. Which of the following is true ?

(A) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a poem in nine books
(B) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a collection of sonnets from the Portuguese
(C) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a nursery rhyme book
(D) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is “the Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry”

57. “The old order changeth yielding place to new,

And God fulfils himself in many way.”
In which of the following poems do these lines appear ?
(A) ‘Locksley Hall’ (B) ‘Two Voices
(C) ‘Morte d’Arthur’ (D) ‘Ulysses’

58. George Eliot’s attempt to write a historical novel of the Italian Renaissance was not successful. Which
was this novel ?
(A) Adam Bede (B) Felix Holt
(C) Silas Marner (D) Romola

59. In which novel, does the hero, driven

by passion and revenge, add a new
dimension to the concept of suffering ?
(A) Wuthering Heights (B) Jude the Obscure
(C) Mill on the Floss (D) Hard Times

60.From the following women

characters in Hardy’s novels choose
the odd one out :
(A) Bathsheba Everdene (B) Eustacia Vye
(C) Elizabeth Jane (D) Lucetta

61. “Out of the gosple he tho words caughte

And this figure he added eek therto,
That if gold ruste, what shal iren do ?”
In the Prologue the Parson is represented as a man :
1. who loved money
2. who criticized the corrupt clergy
3. who practiced what he preached
4. who was a poor but honest clerk
Find the correct combination according to the code :
(A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(B) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
(C) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct

62. Match the items in List – I with items

in List – II according to the code
given below :
List – I (Plays) List – II (Characters)
i. White Devil 1. Hieornimo
ii. Maids Tragedy 2. Old Knowell
iii. Every Man in his Humour 3. Vittoria Corombona
iv. The Spanish Tragedie 4. Aspatia
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 3 1 2
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 3 4 2 1
(D) 4 3 2 1
63. Wimsatt and Beardsly coined the term Intentional Fallacy in the book
a. Practical Criticism b. New Criticism.inc
c. Verbal Icon d. Critique of Judgement
64. The concept of ‘alienation effect’ in theatre which was in direct opposition to Aristotle’s catharsis was
given by
a. Antoin Autrod b. David Sylvester
b. Samuel Becket d. Bertolt Brecht
65. Through which of the following locations does Christian, the protagonist of The Pilgrim’s Progress
does not pass
a. Mountain of Lust b.Slough of Despond
c. Valley of the Shadow of Death d. Vanity Fair
66. John Milton’s L’Allegro and Il Penseroso which are companion pieces are written in
a. iambic pentameter b. octosyllabic couplet
c.rhyme royale d.blank verse
67. 18th century poets who wrote about death and morality. The poetry was related to early stages of the
English Romantic Movement. Members include Thomas Parnell, Gray, Robert Blair, and Edward Young.
The lasting effect of there poetry has been one element in the Gothic aspect of romanticism. Name this
group.
a. Lake Poets Group b. Rhymers Club
c.Satanic School d. Graveyard School
68. Which literary device is used in the following lines
If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song
May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy pensive ear
William Collins “Ode to Evening”
a. Assonance b. Consonance
c. Alliteration d. Cacophony
69. Which of the following is not a anti-hero?
a. Humbert Humbert’ Lolita b. Moll Flanders, Moll Flanders
c. Yossarin, Catch 22 d. Romeo, Romeo and Juliet
70. “Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.”This sentence from Samuel Johnson’s
Raselas is a fine example of
a. Paradox b. Oxymoron
c. Antithesis d. bathos
71.In his influential book Anatomy of Criticism Northrop Frye makes the correspondances of literary
genres with seasons. Which of the following is incorrectly matched?
a. Comedy- spring b.Romance-summer
c.Tragedy-Monsoon d. Satire- Winter
72.Match the thinker and the essay:
A. Mitchel Faucault i. Death of the Author
B. Roland Barthes ii. What is an Author?
C. Roger Chartier iii. Figure of the Author
a. A-i; B-ii; C-iii
b. A-ii;B-i: C-iii
c. A-i, B-iii; C-ii
d. A-iii: B-i: C-ii
73. Which of the following is an example of a literary ballad?
a. Rime of the Ancient Mariner b. Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat
c. Frost at Midnight d. Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
74. Match the following:
A. Shakespeare i. Sage of Highgate
B. Wordsworth ii. Bard of Avon
C. Robert Burns iii. Bard of Ayrshire
D. Coleridge iv. Bard of Rydal Mount
a. A-i; B-ii; C-iv; d-iii
b. A-ii; B-iv; C-iii; d-i
c. A-ii; B-i; C-iii; D-ii
d. A-ii; B-i, C-iii, D-iv
75. Sir Thomas North translated the Lives of the Greek writer Plutarch, which later became the source of
Shakespeares characters in
a. Roman Plays c. Romantic Comedies
d. Great Tragedies d. Historical Plays
76. In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as:
a.Female symbols b.Phallic symbols
c.Male symbols d.Evidence of an Oedipus complex

77.This feminist critic proposed that all female characters in literature are in at least one of the following
stages of development: the feminine, feminist, or female stage.
a.Elaine Showalter b.Mary Wolstencraft
c.Virginia Woolf d. Ellen Mores

78. Jacques Derrida’s work received some criticism from analytical philosophers. Who below
was a critic of Derrida ?
(1) John Searle (2) Jean-Francois Lyotard
(3) Emmanuel Levinas (4) Paul de Man

79. _____________, who was also a novelist made an appraisal of science fiction in his critical study
New Maps of Hell?
a. C.M. Bowra b. Aldous Huxley
c. H.G. Wells d. Kingsley Amis

80. Match the autobiographical works with their writers:

I. I knock at the door A. G.B. Shaw
II. Sixteen Half Sketches B. Sean O’ Casey
III. Sorrows Passions and Alarms C. Lawrence Durrel
IV. Bitter Lemons D. James Kirkup
Choose the correct code
I II III IV
a. B A D C
b. A B C D
c. C A B D
d. A D C B
82. ___________ extolled the virtues of science and deplored the lack of contact between the arts and the
modern technological age. He gave his views in 1959 in the Rede Lecture, The Two Cultures and The
Scientific Revolution?
a. Lord Charles Percy Snow b. Evelyn Waugh
c. F. R. Leavis d. Lionel Poles

83. The novels of James Patrick Donleavy usually feature a purposeless and lonely protagonist. Which
of the following is not one of his novels?
a. The Ginger Man b. A Singular Man
c. The Onion Eaters d. Cakes and Ale

84. As per the point of view of William Golding evil is apparent everywhere, and is with difficulty held
at bay and good is almost impossible to achieve. Which of the following is not a novel by Golding?
a. The Inheritors b. The Wanting Seed
c. Free Fall d. The Scorpion God

85. If Newspeak is to George Orwell then Nadsat is to

a. Anthony Burgess b. Malcolm Bradbury
c. William Golding d. Allan Stillitoe

86. The name of the protagonist of Doris May Lessing’s Children of Violence is
a. Venus Quest b. Martha Crest
c. Martha Quest d. Daniel Crest

87. August is a Wicked Month is a novel by

a. Edna O’ Brian b. Jean Iris Murdoch
c. Ian MacEwan d. Margaret Drabble

88. Under Milk Wood is a verse play written especially for radio and at times presented as a solo reading
by the author himself. Who is the author in question?
a. Dylan Thomas b. Joseph enright
c. W.H. Auden d. John Wain
89. The Great Hunger and Come Dance with Kitty Stobling are poetry collections by
a. Keidrych Rhys b. Patrick Kavanagh
c. Philip Larkin d. Ted Hughes
90. Who wrote the sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
a. H.G. Wells b. Edgar Rice Burroughs
c. Philip K. Dick d. Aldous Huxley

a. in a prison at Newgate b. in a poorhouse

c. in an orphanage d. in France
92. The novel Pride and Prejudice ends with
a. Darcy marrying Elizabeth and Bingley marryimg Miss Darcy
b. Darcy marrying Elizabeth and Wickham marrying Jane
c. Bingley marruing Jane and Elizabeth marrying Wickham
d. Bingley marrying Jane and Darcy marrying Elizabeth
93. Which of the following is not one of the rituals Walter Shandy performs on the first Sunday of the
month in Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne?
a. Winding the clock b. Sleeping with his wife
c. Performing “beds of justice” d. Fixing minor problems around the estate
94. What does the squire in The Canterbury tales, who is also the son of the gallant Knight, wear?
a. a velvet doublet and hose b. cloth embroidered with flowers
c. Green and peacock blue hunting gear d. A beaver hat
95. Why does the speaker in Spenser’s Epithalamion compare his beloved to mythical Penelope?
a. she unravels her effort every night
b. she is the wife of an epic hero
c. she is willing to wait patiently for his return
d. she has many suitors vying for her attention

96. Which angel does Satan trick by disguising himself as a cherub in Paradise Lost?
a. Michael b. Uriel
c. Raphael d. Abdiel
97. John Donne’s poem “Death be Not Proud” is part of which group of poems?
a. The Epithalamions b. The Songs
c. The Holy Sonnets d. The Devotions Upon Divergent Occasions
98. Who wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
a. Henrik Ibsen b. Victor Hugo
c. Geoffery Chaucer d. Miguel de Cervantes
99. To what do the four types of supernatural beings correspond in The Rape of the Lock?
a. Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs
b. Ace, King, Queen and Jack
c. Earth, Air, Fire and Water
d. North, South, East and West

100. Which of the following author– theme is correctly matched ?

(A) The Battle of the Books Tribute to “The rude forefathers of the hamlet”.
(B) The Rape of the Lock Quarrel between ancient and modern authors.
(C) Gray’s “Elegy” Accumulation of wealth and the consequent loss of human lives and values.
(D) The Deserted Village Quarrel between two families caused by Lord Petre.